“Much of what I found valuable about the conference today was seeing both how my work integrates into a larger picture, and how I can tailor what I do in coordination with the organizers, attorneys, and city representatives in order to have a bigger impact,” Daniel D. Bahls, a staff attorney at Community Legal Aid, said.

Project No One Leaves was established by members of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, the oldest student-run legal services organization in the country, and works in conjunction with City Life/Vida Urbana.

The conference is one part of the work of Project No One Leaves. The organization focuses mostly on local communities where they help tenants and homeowners, according to David G. Curtis, the conference coordinator and a student at the Law School.

“We are out canvassing every weekend,” Curtis said. “We are going out to Dorchester and to Roxbury and to local communities to inform tenants and homeowners of their rights, so that they don’t get pushed out of their homes by irresponsible bank policies or poor government decisions.”

As the struggles of those facing foreclosures and displacement pressures change, Curtis said Project No One Leaves hopes to remain a constant advocate for tenants and homeowners.

“There is momentum [for this cause], and it should be used to help people who are struggling to just have the basic right to remain in their home,” Curtis said.

—Staff writer Tyler S. Olkowski can be reached at tyler.olkowski@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @OlkowskiTyler.